Elizabeth H. Bradley PhD

Professor of Public Health (Health Policy); Director, Yale Global Health Initiative; Faculty Director, Global Health Leadership Institute; Master, Branford College, Yale College

Biographical Info

Elizabeth Bradley is faculty director for the Global Health Initiative and the Global Health Leadership Institute at Yale, professor of public health and director of Global Health Initiatives at the Yale University School of Public Health. Her research focuses on health delivery systems and quality improvement and has contributed important findings about organizational change and quality of care within the hospital, nursing home and hospice settings. She has been involved with several projects regarding health systems strengthening in international settings, including China, Ethiopia, Liberia, South Africa, Rwanda and the United Kingdom.

The recipient of a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grant, Dr. Bradley is also leading the development of an operational framework of diffusion, dissemination, and widespread take up of family health innovations. Findings from this research can be integrated into future strategy development and large-scale implementation efforts undertaken by the Gates Foundation and the wider global health community. She also works with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Clinton Health Access Initiative on the Ethiopian Hospital Management Initiative. This work focuses on building management capacity in the country to improve quality of care throughout the country. Dr. Bradley and colleagues initiated the first Masters of Hospital and Healthcare Management on the African continent and currently works with several universities overseas in education and research programs.

Previously, she was director of the health management program and co-director of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at Yale. She also served as hospital administrator at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Dr. Bradley is a member of the World Economic Forum, Network of Global Agenda Councils and, in 2010, she was selected facilitator for the strategic planning retreat for the Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, tuberculosis and Malaria.

Dr. Bradley is a graduate of Harvard University, has an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in health economics and health policy from Yale University. She has received numerous honors and awards during her career, including being a three-time recipient of the Teacher of the Year award by the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale; recipient of the John D. Thompson Young Investigator Award, and the Investigator Award by the Donaghue Medical Research Foundation. She served as a fellow with the Gerontological Society of America and is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives. She has been an author of more than 180 peer-reviewed publications and two books.

International Activity

• Healthcare, Ethiopia, Education, CHAI partnership
  Ethiopia (2010)
  EHMI: Ethiopian Hospital Management Initiative
• Global Health
  (2010)
  Leadership in Global Health Grand Rounds
• UK Partner - South Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
  United Kingdom; Angola; Armenia; Azerbaijan (2010)
  Professional Development Program in International Healthcare Management
• HIV/AIDS
  Ethiopia; Nassau, Bahamas; Andorra (2010)
  External Evaluation of the Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative
• Healthcare delivery, China
  China; Rio de Janeiro, Argentina; Tirana, Albania; Italy (2010)
  Women in Management: Improving Health Care Delivery in China
• Project X
  Luanda, Angola (2010)
  Doing stuff

Education & Training

B.A.

Harvard University (1984)

M.B.A.

University of Chicago (1986)

Ph.D.

Yale University (1996)

Fellow

Gerontological Association of America

Honors & Recognition

• Member,World Economic Forum Global Agenda for Healthcare Systems
  
• John D. Thompson Investigator Award in Health Services Research